A bestseller was born – President Trump’s telephone conversation with Bob Woodward was a cheery affair that was widely broadcast.  Not sure if it was the President’s intention to give ... Read more

Well, no one saw that coming.  The trade is still reeling from Waterstones acquisition of Foyles, which has been arguably the industry’s best kept secret since Bertelsmann’s swoop on Random ... Read more

Demand is currently exceeding supply in the children’s market in China, according to Liying Lin, director of the Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF) which wrapped up last Saturday (25 August).  ... Read more

There were healthy quarterly results for HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster, with revenue in the fourth quarter at HC up 20%, and sales at S&S up by $1m in the ... Read more

The boardroom ructions at Bonnier which have seen a number of individuals leave that particular publishing island with their metaphorical wheelie bags in tow – just like that programme that ... Read more

As parks and gardens turned brown across the UK and Waterstones stores cleverly displayed Penelope Lively’s novel Heat Wave, so the mercury on the Nielsen print sales thermometer (this analogy ... Read more

Some interesting comments from Penguin Random House CEO Markus Dohle on wanting to grown both its physical and digital businesses.  He noted: “Today we are selling our books through 120,000 ... Read more

It has been a good month for independent presses.  Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones, published by Dublin’s Tramp Press, won the €100,000 Dublin International Literary Award; Benjamin Myers’ The Gallows Pole, ... Read more

In marked contrast to comments made by the then Hachette UK CEO Tim Hely Hutchinson at Futurebook at the end of 2016, his fellow chief execs at this year’s BookExpo ... Read more